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Have you forgotten us?

(part 1)

 

Have you forgotten us?

We, who, taken from our homes

Our families and friends

Were shunted like cattle

In railway boxes fit for pigs

Yet treated worse than either.

 

Have you forgotten us?

We, who were stamped and numbered

Stripped and tortured

Bruised and beaten

Used as playthings for perverted men.

 

Have you forgotten us?

We, who were stripped naked

And bundled into innocent looking rooms

Whose clinical stench

Belayed their hidden purpose.

 

Have you forgotten us?

We, who screamed with terror

Drowning the laughs

Of those outside

As steel faucets

Belched forth death.

 

Have you forgotten us?

We, the millions of children

Who like rotting manure

Were bulldozed into

Bottomless pits

Turning them into mountains.

 

(part 2)

 

Have you forgotten us?

You, who protest so loudly, so bitterly

Against the use of animals

In scientific experiments.

No one protested

When they used us.

 

Have you forgotten us

You, who care so much for your old

Your sick and your disabled,

Our old were clubbed to death

Our sick were left to die

Our disabled were used for sport.

 

Have you forgotten us?

You, who lovingly protect your children.

Ours were wrenched away from us

Ours were used for ****** perversions,

Ours were skinned alive.

No one protected them.

 

Have you forgotten us?

You, who found the camps

The massive ovens

The mountains of bodies

The hoards of hair and teeth

The human skinned lampshades.

 

Have you forgotten us?

You, who murdered us.

Are you deaf to our cries?

Were they simply orders?

Were you just soldiers?

Didn’t you really know?

 

Have you forgotten us?

You the world we left behind.

Can thirty years really dull

Your memory of it all?

Did it really happen?

Wasn’t it all exaggerated?

 

(part 3)

 

So now we look down

We thirty million or so

At the indifference

The political cover-ups

The bland excuses

The half-hearted attempts at justice.

The murderers who live

In luxury and power

The monsters of earth

Who created hell

The generation who forgot

The generation who never knew

The generation who will never know

The jackboots

The ********

The Nazis’ salute

 

(part 4)

 

Yes you have forgotten us.

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Written by
david-i-phillips
English
Published
Mar 31, 2010
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Notes

This is the third of my performance pieces. I have left the parts 1,2,3,4 in which are left over from the theatrical staging of the piece as I feel it gives the reader a welcome break. It can prove to be a difficult read for some.- From Emotional Swings & Round-a-bouts

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